Union Pacific (UP) links to the new Capital Area Rail Terminal in Jefferson City, Mo., and signs a historic lease agreement ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

Rails to Trails Conservancy is hosting its Celebrate Trails Day on April 26. This annual spring celebration of America’s trails, which Rails to Trails has organized since 2013 on the fourth ...

The Mississippi River proved a reliable north–south transportation corridor, but the country’s western expansion demanded an east–west transcontinental railroad ... us a road map of resistance.

The depot put Boise on the map — both literally and figuratively ... expanding and opening up this whole area,” Wilson said. “The transcontinental railroad did a lot of huge things for ...

At dawn and dusk, the sky literally darkens with these magnificent birds as they travel between feeding grounds and roosting sites. Their prehistoric call creates a cacophony you’ll never forget – ...